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A week that started with a renewed spirit and a sense of determination spiraled into a sea of lost opportunities and a buzz saw in the end.
The Grant County Lady Braves were looking forward to their first meeting of the season against their district rival Walton Verona on Jan. 8 in Dry Ridge.

The game didn’t start out as planned by the Braves as they fell behind early because of turnovers and some good shooting by the Lady Bearcats.
As the first quarter came to an end, the Braves luckily were only down 18-13.

Lawmakers will soon be heading back to Frankfort for the 2015 legislative session.
While the General Assembly will only meet for 30 days, there will be lots of issues debated over a short time span.
The short session begins Jan. 6 and is scheduled to end March 24.
Sen. Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, and Rep. Brian Linder, R-Dry Ridge, spoke to the Grant County News about what to expect in the coming weeks.

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Grant County’s first Republican judge and fiscal court magistrates held their first meeting Monday night.
The court’s first executive order included hiring Scott Kimmich as Grant County’s deputy judge-executive.
His salary was set at $55,000.
Kimmich isn’t new to politics, having previously served as the deputy judge in Boone and Kenton counties.
David Rose, who was attending the fiscal court meeting, questioned where the county was going to get the money for Kimmich’s salary.

An audit of the Grant County Detention Center concludes that the facility had “no checks and balances” during the four-year term of former jailer Terry Peeples.
The audit, performed by auditor Denise Keene, was authorized by the Grant County Fiscal Court late last year.
It included all operations in former jailer Terry Peeples’ tenure from 2011 to 2014, except November and December 2014.

While the temperature started to drop in our area, things were heating up down south in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Grant County Lady Braves basketball team was the catalyst.
The Lady Braves played in the Carolina Invitational Tournament, which started Dec. 27 through Dec. 29.
In the opening round Saturday, the Lady Braves took on Beaufort High School from South Carolina.

(Editor’s Note: The Grant County News publishes all items in police beat that are submitted from each individual police agency. The News does not omit names from police reports.)
Deputy Bobby Webb executed a warrant for Paul M. Mullins, 36, of Dry Ridge, for probation violation, at 8 a.m. Dec. 22 on Barnes Road. Mullins was lodged at the Grant County Detention Center.

Local officials were not pleased with the state’s decision to pull tax incentives from the Ark Encounter project in Williamstown, but know the project will be built.
The state gave preliminary approval to the tax incentives on July 29. This would have allowed the park to participate in a program that would let it keep 25 percent of the sales tax the Ark Encounter would collect over 25 years.